OT: Queen at their live best!!

[mistiejourney]

a truley wonderful album is their very last ..MADE IN HEAVEN.. recorded when mercury was very ill... but its a masterpiece..you have to listen all the way through it , until it ejects.. a couple of gems at the very end..

http://www.amazon.com/Made-Heaven-Queen ... 18-2844805

Thanks - just downloaded it from iTunes!

[conversationpc]

a truley wonderful album is their very last ..MADE IN HEAVEN.. recorded when mercury was very ill... but its a masterpiece..you have to listen all the way through it , until it ejects.. a couple of gems at the very end..

http://www.amazon.com/Made-Heaven-Queen ... 18-2844805

It's an outstanding album and, considering Freddie's extremely ill health at the time, he sounds very good. The song "Mother Love" gets to me every time. In fact, it was the last song he ever recorded and he was so ill that he could not finish it. That's why Brian May sings the last verse.

[larryfromnextdoor]

a truley wonderful album is their very last ..MADE IN HEAVEN.. recorded when mercury was very ill... but its a masterpiece..you have to listen all the way through it , until it ejects.. a couple of gems at the very end..

http://www.amazon.com/Made-Heaven-Queen ... 18-2844805

It's an outstanding album and, considering Freddie's extremely ill health at the time, he sounds very good. The song "Mother Love" gets to me every time. In fact, it was the last song he ever recorded and he was so ill that he could not finish it. That's why Brian May sings the last verse.

what?? i better go dig this out,, i had no idea.. BUT ..brian has a fabulous voice,, its no wonder those queen back ground vocals are the best..

[larryfromnextdoor]

a truley wonderful album is their very last ..MADE IN HEAVEN.. recorded when mercury was very ill... but its a masterpiece..you have to listen all the way through it , until it ejects.. a couple of gems at the very end..

http://www.amazon.com/Made-Heaven-Queen ... 18-2844805

Thanks - just downloaded it from iTunes!

mistie.. it may take a few listens to really dig the tunes.. but its one of fav sad albums..

[mistiejourney]

a truley wonderful album is their very last ..MADE IN HEAVEN.. recorded when mercury was very ill... but its a masterpiece..you have to listen all the way through it , until it ejects.. a couple of gems at the very end..

http://www.amazon.com/Made-Heaven-Queen ... 18-2844805

Thanks - just downloaded it from iTunes!

mistie.. it may take a few listens to really dig the tunes.. but its one of fav sad albums..

I never judge an album by the first listen - with someone like Freddy Mercury (and Steve Perry, actually) I just love the VOICE no matter what the song is. This one will be sad, knowing that Freddy was dying. Heck, I get a lump in my throat every time I watch them. I just watched all five parts of the Live Aid concert and that is how I'd like to remember him.

As an aside - I saw the video for "I Want to Break Free" for the first time today - hilarious. But Freddy has/had better legs than I do. That's embarrasing.

[Paul_UK]

Apparently the last vocal put down on tape for this album was recorded just 7 weeks before his untimely death. Quite literally a musician to the last.

The painfully frail Freddie that appeared in the video for These Are The Days Of Our Lives is also a testement to him playing through the pain barrier. He could only stand up for a few lines of the song so filming had to stop on regular intervals and edited together with footage of the rest of the band later.

[conversationpc]

Apparently the last vocal put down on tape for this album was recorded just 7 weeks before his untimely death. Quite literally a musician to the last.

The painfully frail Freddie that appeared in the video for These Are The Days Of Our Lives is also a testement to him playing through the pain barrier. He could only stand up for a few lines of the song so filming had to stop on regular intervals and edited together with footage of the rest of the band later.

I wish he could've finished the vocal for "Mother Love" but, then again, Brian's vocal on that last verse is very poignant.

[Paul_UK]

Apparently the last vocal put down on tape for this album was recorded just 7 weeks before his untimely death. Quite literally a musician to the last.

The painfully frail Freddie that appeared in the video for These Are The Days Of Our Lives is also a testement to him playing through the pain barrier. He could only stand up for a few lines of the song so filming had to stop on regular intervals and edited together with footage of the rest of the band later.

I wish he could've finished the vocal for "Mother Love" but, then again, Brian's vocal on that last verse is very poignant.

Very much so...it never fails to move me.

[*Laura]

This is a snippet from a documentry show here in the UK a while back of what was voted by music fans all over the globe of what they thought is "The World's Greatest Live Performance" - and your winner is.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRavEPU_ ... een%20live

OK, so i'm a little biased but this programme consisted of Elvis in Hawaii, Elvis 1968 Comeback, Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, some serious performances, yet nothing came close to the audience reaction to that of this Queen performance at Wembley. What adds to this being the greatest live performance is that this audience was a neutral crowd, not a Queen audience!

Awesome!!

Just finished watching this (and the other footage on the page)...Unbelievable.
I had the whole show on a VHS many years ago,but I forgot about it.
As much as I love the Classic Journey and am in awe everytime I see one of their arena shows form the 80s,I have to be objective and admit that Queen were bigger and Freddie was a wizard...What an absolute showman!

Thanks for posting this.